Amazing Pictures, Pollution in China
October 21st, 2009 by Key | Posted in News | 1,634 Comments »[QQ] October 14, 2009, the 30th annual awards ceremony of the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund took place at the Asia Society in New York City. Lu Guang (卢广) from People’s Republic of China won the $30,000 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for his documentary project “Pollution in China.”
Lu Guang (卢广), freelancer photographer, started as an amateur photographer in 1980. He was a factory worker, later started his own photo studio and advertising agency. August of 1993 he returned to post-graduate studies at the Central Arts and Design Academy in Beijing (now is the Academy of Arts and Design, Tsinghua University). During graduate school, he studied, traveled all over the country and carved out a career, became the “dark horse” of the photographer circle in Beijing. Skilled at social documentary photography, his insightful, creative and artistic work often focused on “social phenomena and people living at the bottom of society”, attracted the attentions of the national photography circle and the media. Many of his award winning works focused on social issues like, “gold rush in the west”, “drug girl”, “small coal pit”, “HIV village”, “the Grand Canal”, “development of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway” and so on.
1. “At the junction of Ningxia province and Inner Mongolia province, I saw a tall chimney puffing out golden smoke covering the blue sky, large tracts of the grassland have become industrial waste dumps; unbearable foul smell made people want to cough; Surging industrial sewage flowed into the Yellow River…”
- Lu Guang
2. Chemical waste from Jiangsu Taixing Chemical Industrial District (江苏泰兴化工园区) dumped on top of the Yangtze River bank. May 15, 2009
3. Fan Jai Zhuang in Anyang City, Henan province, (河南安阳市范家庄) there is only one wall separating this village from the steelmaking furnaces. The villagers live in this heavily polluted environment where the village is under the iron rain every day. March 24, 2008
4. Industrial sewage of Zhejiang Xiaoshan Industrial District (浙江萧山化工园区) eventually flowed into Qiantang River. April 24, 2009
5. Henan Anyang iron and steel plant’s (河南安阳钢铁厂) sewage flowed into Anyang River. March 25, 2008
6. Guiyu, Guangdong province, (广东省贵屿镇) rivers and reservoirs have been contaminated, the villager is washing in a seriously polluted pond. November 25, 2005
7. Shizuishan Industrial district in Ningxia province (宁夏石嘴山湖滨工业园区), the tall chimneys spitted out smoke and dust. Residents took preventive measure for the falling dust from the sky when going outside. April 22, 2006
8. In the Yellow Sea coastline, countless sewage pipes buried in the beach and even extending into the deep sea. April 28, 2008
9. In Ma’anshan, Anhui province (安徽马鞍山), along the Yangtze River there are many small-scaled Iron selection factories and plastic processing plants. Large amounts of sewage discharged into the Yangtze River June 18, 2009
10. In Inner Mongolia there were 2 “black dragons” from the Lasengmiao Power Plant (内蒙古拉僧庙发电厂) covering the nearby villages. July 26, 2005
11. Jiangsu province Changshu City Fluorine Chemical industry land sewage treatment plant (江苏省常熟市氟化学工业园污水处理厂) was responsible for collection and processing of the industrial sewage. However they did not, the sewage pipe was extended 1500 meters under the Yangtze River and releasing the sewage there. 2009 June 11
12. Soil by Yangtze River, was polluted by Anhui Province Ma’anshan Chemical Industrial District (安徽省马鞍山化工园区). June 26, 2009
13. Large amount of the industrial wastewater flowed to Yellow River from Inner Mongolia Lasengmiao Industrial District (内蒙古拉僧庙工业园区) every day. July 26, 2005
14. A Large amount of the chemical wastewater discharged into Yangtze River from Zhenjiang Titanium mill (镇江市钛粉厂) every day. Less than 1,000 meters away downstream is where the water department of Danyang City gets its water from. June 10, 2009
15. In Haimen city, Jiangsu province Chemical Industrial District sewage treatment Plant (江苏省海门市化工园区污水处理厂) discharged wastewater into Yangtze River. June 5, 2009
16. Hebei Province Shexian Tianjin Iron and steel plant (河北省涉县天津钢铁厂) is a heavily polluting company. Company scale is still growing, seriously affecting the lives of local residents. March 18, 2008
17. Longmen town in Hanchen city, Shaanxi Province (陕西省韩城市龙门镇) has large-scaled industrial development. Environment is very seriously polluted there. April 8, 2008
18. There are over 100 chemical plants in Jiangsu province coastal industry district. (江苏滨海头罾沿海化工园区) Some of them discharge wastewater into the ocean; some heavily contaminated sewage is stored in 5 “Sewage Temporary Pools”. During the 2 high tides in every month, the sewage then gets discharged into the ocean with the tides. June 20, 2008
19. Jiangxi Province Hu Ko County Chemical Industry district (江西省胡口县化工园区) is by the Yangtze River. Chemical factory landfill the Yangtze River bank to expand the scale of the factory without authorization.
20. Anhui Province Cihu Chemical Industry District (安徽省慈湖化工园区) built a underground pipe to discharge wastewater into the Yangtze River. The wastewater sometimes is black, gray, dark red, or yellow, wastewater from different chemical factories has different colors. June 18, 2009
21. Shanxi Province is the most polluted areas of China. It is also the province with the highest rate of birth defects. This loving farmer couple adopted 17 disabled children. April 15, 2009
“In Some areas of China people’s lives were threatened because of the environmental pollution. Residents suffering from all kinds of obscured diseases, the cancer villages, increase of deformed babies, these were the results of sacrificing environment and blindly seeking economical gain.”
- Lu Guang
22. Elder shepherd by the Yellow River cannot stand the smell. April 23, 2006
23. 15-year-old boy from Tianshui, Gansu Province (甘肃天水), dropped out of the school after 2nd grade, followed his parents to Heilonggui (黑龙贵) Industrial District. He earns 16 yuan a day. April 8, 2005
24. Inner Mongolia province Heilonggui (黑龙贵) Industrial District, the couple who worked at the Plaster Kiln and just got home. March 22, 2007
25. Villagers from Kang village in Linfen City, Shanxi Province (山西省临汾市下康村) due to long-term consumption of the polluted water contaminated by industrial waste, there were 50 people who have cancer and cerebral thrombosis. 64-year-old Wang Baosheng got ill since 2003, he has fester all over his body so he cannot go to bed and lying face down on the edge of the bed each day. July 10, 2005
26. Breathing in large amount of dust into the lungs, people gets sick after working there for 1-2 years. Most of these migrant workers come from area of poverty. April 10, 2005
27. Zhangqiao village by the Hong River in Wugang City, Henan Province (河南省舞钢市洪河边的张桥村), a 45-year-old woman Sun Xiaojun (孙晓军) could not move her feet and hands since 4 years ago. The numerous hospital treatments were not effective. April 7, 2009
28. Zhaozhuang village by the Hong River in Wugang City, Henan province (河南省舞钢市洪河边的赵庄村), 66-year-old Zhao Bingkun suffering from esophageal cancer since 2004, after the second surgery, treatment cost already have reached over 200,000 yuan. His condition is in late stage, he is having fever everyday, waiting for death. April 7, 2009
29. Zhaozhuang village by the Hong River in Wugang City, Henan province (洪河边的河南省西平县张于庄村), Gao Wanshun’s (高万顺) wife died of cancer. Now he lives in poverty. April 3, 2009
30. Linfen City in Shanxi province (山西临汾市) is seriously polluted area. Farmers after working in the cotton fields for 2 hours are filled with coal ashes. September 24 2007
31. Salt factory worker in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province (江苏连云港) said angrily, “when the wind blowing towards our side, the foul smell from the chemical factories is unbearable. There is even more poison gas at night.” July 19, 2008
32. People form Fanjiazhuang (范家庄) are ready to submit a complain filled with their fingerprints, to seek compensation for pollution damages. March 19, 2008
33. In Shanxi Province there are a lot of charitable nursing homes, to help disabled infants abandoned by their parents. April 14, 2009
34. Liujiawan village by the Hong River in Wugang City, Henan province (河南省舞钢市洪河边的刘家湾村), 13 year old Yang Xiao in November 2008 was ill with obscure disease. She was saved by the donation of the villagers. When the grandmother saw the old village chief came to visit his granddaughter, she kneeled on the ground holding granddaughter’s hand. April 19, 2009
35. The oldest is 9, not going to school. The youngest is less than 2 years old. They lived in severely polluted area. They hands and faces were always dirty. April 10, 2005
36. Mazhuang village by the Hong River in Wugang City, Henan province, (河南省舞钢市洪河边的马庄村) 58-year-old Ma Haipeng (马海朋) was suffering from stomach cancer since 2006 and could not work in the field. He must take medicine every day, otherwise it is too painful. April 6, 2009
37. Every year, a lot of deficiency babies in Shanxi Province were abandoned. Kong Zhenlan (孔贞兰) in Qi town (祁县) who was making a living by recycling trash adopted 25 abandoned children. April 14, 2009
38. Xuanwei (宣威) in Yunnan province is a cancer village. Every year there are more than 20 people die of cancer. 11-year-old student Xu Li (徐丽) is suffering from bone cancer. May 8, 2007
39. In Shexian Village, Hebei Province, (河北省涉县固新村) the existing cancer patients are more than 50 people and more than 20 cancer patients die each year. March 18, 2008
40. Zhangyuzhuan village by the Hong River in Xiping county, Henan province, (河南省西平县洪河边的张于庄村) 22-year-old Zhu Xiaoyan (朱小燕) had a tumor in her stomach in 2007. She died after number of hospital treatments on July 2008. 4-year-old girl with her grandfather came to mother’s tomb. April 2009 2
original source: Fengniao
Followup: Interview with Lu Guang, the photographer of “Pollution in China”
Tags: Art, Lu Guang, Photos, Pollution, Pollution in China
Those pictures are heart wrenching. I feel so sorry for the working class Chinese people who can do nothing but try to endure another day. The Governments of both China and the US are to blame for using the Chinese people as nothing more than tools and dumbing the American consumer down to the point of utter brainlessness.
I also feel sad for the folks out there that have to work in those conditions. I do not, however, blame the American government or people for China’s problems.
Are Canadian consumers also dumbed down to the point of utter brainlessness? What makes Canadians so much holier than Americans?
America is demanding more products from China than any nation therfore we are the greatest contributor to their condition.
Jon, can’t agree with your statement. America contributes China to grow fast economically. This is other story about what is going inside China mentally.
the WORLD buys from china, not just the us and canada
Jon, you really think that America is responsible for how China and other countries take care of their environmental responsibilities? In the US, we don’t hold consumers liable for the environmental irresponsibility of companies. Think about it– you’re holding onto a pretty tenuous link.
You don’t know what you are talking about.
and what r u talkin about???
The world is bigger than the US. China is and has always been a country that cares very little for the individual, and tends to the masses as much as needed for stability. Most countries do this, but we mustn´t forget that China is doing a lot of catching up, still. What do you think our beautiful industries looked like during the Industrial Revolution in the West? We suffered from the same kind of reckless expansion and figured out how to improve this in the end.
China will have to do the same, because at some point the problems rise beyond the individual, they become a problem of the masses.
As a Canadian I would have to say that we are no better than Americans in this regard. I would add spinelessness – people could vote with their dollars. This is the slavery of our time and it will come home to roost.
I wonder where will all these go to. Avaricious rich people producing their products in China, moving factories to China; avaricious Chinese government which will have some serious problems to solve after few decades: ill people, polluted fields; avaricious merchant which bring everything from China. Ignorant people who buy everything from China or India or some other very poor countries: we do not help the common people from those countries to increase their living level, but just the accounts of those avaricious entities. When you buy a product from China and you have some domestic other choices think of your job: will you move to China for working? They do not need you. Buy the domestic products so that your economy to keep somehow stable. I am afraid that China’s polluting industry is not just their problem, after all we all live on Terra.
Magda,
What’s with “avaricious?” Can you not find another adjective?
Once in a store I mentioned to my mom that the jeans that she was considering buying were most likely made with slave labor. A man nearby said, “buy two!”
American population is 305 million. Canda’s population is 34 million. American’s simply consume more and must take on more responsibility.
You must learn to take care of your home, then your street, your community then your city and move out to your state and then country before you can help globally. Besides sitting back and complaining and blaming others for someones plight- what are you doing to make a difference? Yes essentially we are all responsible but don’t complain -DO. Be a part of the solution. People who want and try to help don’t write about blaming others. They write about solutions and ideas to help and inspire others.
That is one of the best comments, I have read in an online thread for a long time. Thank you.
I see a fair response from one who understands the crux of the problem, not that of “a frog at the bottom of a well”.
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US and European coutries were facing the problems back in 30-60s, now the Chinese . Those polluted factories in China should built away from populated area.
US and European countries should assist China in constructing their industries with the newest, and safest technologies. Sure, there is the problem of copmetition, but as we can see China is developing its industry regardless.
We can do better than that!
some time ago I would have agreed with You. I recently moved down south. After the winter weather was over and I was able to get out into the surrounding area of my house I began to wonder if I had bought a home on a former landfill. There is so much trash everywhere. The former owners lived here for twenty years and had two daughters with their families living on the property as well and all three families threw trash around and never went to the dump or had trash picked up. There are car parts to washing machines to bottles and I’m afraid to look in the bag scattered everywhere. This is very common here in the south. Some say the south shall rise again, I think it will sink in it’s own garbage.
That is very narrow minded. I’ve lived in the north, the south, hell even hawaii… that problem occurs EVERYWHERE. The fact that this is your first exposure to this lifestyle should not give you the right to claim superiority over your neighbors. That is just ignorant. This is just one problem of the Human Condition.
Why did you move to the south and buy a trash-hole piece of property anyways? You should do the right thing of course, and try to clean it up, not insult an entire population you don’t even know or apparently understand.
we dont need to assist them, they will just steal the technology anyways. china needs a moral makeover even more so then the US
Steal our technology? If it cleans up the planet we ought to GIVE it to them!
They don’t want it – it will hurt their profit!!
^^^^^ SO TRUE, THEY HAVE 2 BILLION PEOPLE AT THEIR DISPOSAL
yes, I can agree with you
I think the pollution is hurting their profit, since people need medical care, they die of young age and are thus a burden on society. Eventually these places will either be condemned, thus loss of liveable land, or cleaned up, at a major cost.
Either way a clean environment would save money and lives.
China has good technology to take care of their own problems, but it’s the lack of willingness to do so. There are too many people being bribed.
I have myself seen horrible factory conditions here and the boss told me that he had very good relations with the government people, so he didn’t worry…
Randy,
the pollution should be mitigated as far as possible, also as was rightly mentioned we all need to look at our consumption of goods, if there wasn’t the market then there wouldn’t be the pollution
There wouldn’t be pollution if China cared enough about its residents not to allow industries to pollute.
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Shocking. Internet penetrates the China wall, brings out the truth about Development.
I also agree with what you are saying. China censors everything that is shown to other countries and even their own citizens. No one ever knows what China is actually doing because of their extreme confidentiality. I am happy to see these horrendous ways broadcasted to the public for all to see. People most importantly need to open their eyes that these kind of things is a GLOBAL problem. It feels hopeless to the current generation, but my generation needs to step in and be the change, go to college, and pick the professions that can change these kind of things instead of what can make them the most money. Money is the problem everyone wants it, and no one will sacrifice it to do something great with their life.
We are in the wrong, we buy your products, we can stop with this… today, now in this moment. Depend only of us.
I wrote an epic on what i see as wrong to me
But for some reason it disappeared from view you see
Made me think that no one wants to know
To enable change for world to heal and grow
Were these pictures not seen and understood
By the leaders of our world then where is the good
The money for the conferance would have been better spent
In helping to heal the scars we humans did produce and cement
Creating a world that will not survive
If we do not take action eventually who will be alive!!!!!
I hurt because we are all children you see
No matter colour or creed supposidly humans we shoud be
The billions used in space exploration could be used, but then where would the wealthy and political rulers of our great nation have to escape to when the world goes down the drain if not outer space.
The trillions used in war should be used.
How about the trillions given in handouts?? Why do people whine about ONE trillion dollars in 8 years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan going after terrorists and helping out the Afghan and Iraqi people, and yet have no problem handing out trillions EVERY YEAR to lazy ass minorities and trash?? You bleeding heart Liberals need to get an education.
Nick:
I was very impressed with your statement; and, I got a good laugh out of it because you are so correct!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for making my day.
“yet have no problem handing out trillions EVERY YEAR to lazy ass minorities and trash??”
Us bleeding heart libs generally have a better grasp of FACTS. I don’t even need to research the absurdity of your claim. The federal budget has never been over $1 trillion for a single year until recently. Approximately $700 billion goes to defense appropriations alone – that’s almost 3/4 of a trillion dollars right there. Do the math. There is no way your assertion is even close to the truth.
RE: the other half of your statement. If the education/training opportunities available to the poor in this country are inadequate to prepare them for jobs, assuming there ARE jobs – whose fault is it if they aren’t working? If they are in poor health because there is no health insurance but state aid, malnourished because there isn’t any grocery stores with fresh fruits and vegetables in those neighborhoods, how likely is that they will be ready to learn in school? These are factors known to effect one’s ability to learn.
You rednecks need to get an education – you cannot expect a child growing up in poverty, deprived of the basic education, nutrition, health care that prepares him/her to be a productive member of society to have the necessary skills to get a job. To point at the resulting adult and brand him/her as lazy, when your greed and selfishness are a direct cause of their unpreparedness (when was the last time you supported higher taxes to improve schools, provide housing, food or education assistance to those in need?) is the ultimate hypocrisy and, dare I say it?, the ultimate anti-CHRISTIAN belief.
I’m not justified to use term smashing for the last pic, but I really have to. Thanks for this reality show.
What about Cradle to Cradle, what about designing products with wastes that provide nutrients that the environment needs, litter as compost, waste as food for other living processes, and technical products that can be dismantled and reused.
Cancer – read Foods that Fight Cancer Dr Richard Beliveau and AntiCancer A New Way of Living Dr. David-Servan Schreiber…
This also makes me wonder about the argument, it’s better to buy these products to support these economy’s because without the support things would be worse off, after seeing these pictures I have trouble believing that…
i hope these picture will raise awareness in each of about where things come from: the energy we produce, the plastic we use…
Primo Levi, when describing his feelings about holocaust used the expression “composite feeling” because he felt that each person was in some way guilty. Guilty of committing the crime, guilty of letting someone committing, guilty of surviving.
I feel this “composite feeling” could describe the current situation about production of goods, sustainability and consumption of them.
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So shocking!I have never seen such terrible things just in our country!The cost of economic development is so large!Seeing those badly sick people,those innocent children,those polluted rivers,I doubt why don’t our government take actions,and I believe that they must know that,but why?If we have to make such pollution in order to gain our economy,we won’t really be prosperous and strong.Where is the”society in harmony”?
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when all of china is dead,,,,, then it will stop.
probably
Talk without thinking and reasoning has little value.
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So many comments blaming the American government for inaction. The blame game is what such comments amount to. Until people assume personal responsibility for our own actions, nothing good can be done. If we as individuals make changes in our way of living, we can help the people in these photos. Take your own reusable bags to the grocery store and phase out plastic bags from your life. Consider not buying JUNK you don’t need that is made in China. If you cannot come of with at least 2 legitimate reasons why you need to buy something, then don’t. Walk or ride your bike instead of driving your car (that has a ton of parts on it made in China) so that it lasts a little longer. Stop buying clothes that fashion dictates you need to have and wear what your over-burdened closet is already struggling to hold. Wear it out before you replace it…. Simple things to do. Your savings account will look a lot better too.
this is probalby the most dead on statment i read so far, its nice to know some people in this world are still thinking right?
Hi Che-Li! I appreciated your comments about how to save money. They were wise words in the area of home economics. Perhaps you might consider a pamphlet or shosrt paperback on “How To Cut Expenses To The bone. By Che-Li”. Watch me on “George Hunt Alex Jones” (google). I have gone active in exposing the fellows who cast all of these inflation/depression problems on us: the international banking crowd.
Bye for now! George Hunt
My company outsources sewing to China, I go there all the time, it’s disgustingly polluted. I don’t see a way out of this mess. The combined efforts of the multitudes by recycling or fancy light bulbs or what ever will not turn the industrial revolution around in China, it will go on, all the coal and oil in the world will be gobbled up by me, you and our Chinese brethren. Short of going back in time and keeping humans from becoming “SMART” enough to use these so called natural resources, we are going to kill ourselves. The human brain has evolved into a negative mutation and is going to kill itself.
“The human brain has evolved into a negative mutation and is going to kill itself.”
Huh? Waxing philosophic are we?
ALL the COMMENTORS here talking trash to the chinese, this happens worldwide ASSHOLES! try the muslim world and mexico and africa, you see pollution and impoverished and victims of industrial waste. The eco self righteous morons who try make their own laws to FORCE their ideology on the rest of this world. All humans are different and have their choice of how they want to live. The way you morons think will cause more wars! Many of you idiots live in a cocoon! Stop blaiming just one group. Look at the idiots in the backward 7th century morons from the middle east, they pollute more! Most of the people are racist piece of crap talking a lot trash cause their mouths are full trash. Blame AMERICA, if you live in AMERICA, get the hell out and live in SAUDI ARABIA or IRAN where you will die fro making such stupid comments. Those are worst countries and races. Why not worry about YOUR OWN problems and the problems you make. None of you idiots are any better. Happy to buy chinese products, happy to buy AMERICAN products. STOP FORCING YOUR BELIEFS on others or you will get your FACE REARRANGE. You idiots. LET PEOPLE DECIDE FOR THEMSELVES YOU BUNCH OF IGNORANT AND POMPOUS ARROGANT SELF RIGHTEOUS MORONS!
gung fu: For the definition of “IGNORANT AND POMPOUS”, you have but to look in the mirror.
Intelligent discussion does not need to resort to blaiming or name-calling. Neither produces the results that are badly needed to stop world pollution. Everything is connected…. when china pollutes their rivers and the ocean, it does not stay there…. The oceanic currents ensures the ocean world-wide is effected. Likewise with the air currents…… each individuals part in the scheme of things effects the whole world and you can do your part to ensure that your own little corner of the world is cleaned up as well as you can manage. If everyone made sure that their living space was as clean as they could manage and if we helped our neighbour clean his, we could all make a big difference – together. Drop by drop, you fill the cup. You are either part of the problem or part of the solution….. you choose……
Not really. He makes a very valid point. What you ignorant assholes are ignoring is that China is its own sovereign country, and a COMMUNIST country that doesnt give TWO SHITS about its people…yet all we see here is blaming US or Western consumerism. Really?? Are Chinese not consumers?? They have billions of people in their country, do you think all of them are working in factories?? They are experiencing a HUGE economic boom….they probably have more consumers than we have in all of North America. They consume more than Americans, probably not per capita, but they consume more over all due to their population. Get over your hippie BS and be pro-active and go to the source of the problem….the Chinese government.
China is set on staying a world power at the expense of its people. let the president of china live in these conditions!!! shameful.
Fully agree.
I for one try to be carefull NOT to buy Chinese. I do not support the Chinese in their polution of not only their home but our children as well. I however can not see that if everyone did the same, things would improve. Commies cultivate a slave class and if the west did not support this then there would be mass graves for those that starve. I will not be held hostage in concience or in fact for the despotic chinese govt. F ‘em.
i don’t support racist assholes like you either and would like to use GUNG FU to kick your ass and racist assholes like you and those in this racist forums. why not stop buying OIL from your MORE RACIST BUDDIES called MUSLIMS and ARABS or the middle east who is far far worst then the commies. STOP VOTING FOR THE COMMIES IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY THEN, your president is a commie, why do you support him. I don’t see morons like you going against CUBA and venezuela or MEXICO who is contaminating AMERICA with illegals TAKING your jobs and kicking you out of your property. Go pick on the chinese but not the other GROUPS who does far more harm on western societies! you are all racist idiots. You behave like all the 7th century most racist group of people called MUSLIMS. You should worry about SAUDI ARABIA AND IRAN when they IMPOSE THEIR SHARIA piece of crap laws down your throat and shove the koran up your throat by FORCE or DEATH! those are the people you should worry about moron!
dude, relax. and stop using CAPS so much. it diminishes the effect.
seems as if we may be looking at a fight over Taiwan…..
Horrific pictures! The American, Canadian, or the Chinese people are not to blame however. Nafta, cafta and all the rest stripped the people of North America of there jobs! The global corporations and banksters wanted more profit at the expense of the livelyhood of Americans and the literal lives of the poor Chinese people. The greed of these people is leading to the collapse of the world economy and all of us, the innocent sea of humanity will bear the brunt of the wicked globalist masters. Soon the taxes will begin under Obama in the U.S. and elsewhere and it will be like getting blood out of a rock! Global warming taxes (while we’re freezing), carbon footprint taxes, cap and trade(whatever the hell that is). God help us, because He is the only one who can!
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Wow. It’s like Dickensian London, but on a continental scale. Someone is making money.
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This is just wrong. Just goes to show how much more important monaey is than anything else to most people. Unfortunately, it will not end. We cannot stop buying Chinese products anymore, because in most cases, we have no choice. Large corporations that exploit these people, whereever they may be in the world should be shamed.
The Love Of Money Is The Root Of All Evil.
I don’t need the bible to realize this truth.
Corporations only exist to make a profit,no matter who or what is destroyed in the process.
Yup. All hail Mammon.
China ist ein ARSCHLOCH!!!
sack reis. weisse bescheid.
These pictures are very sad, but who really cares as long as your 401K increases in value and you can purchase cheap products at walmart? I just want to be safe, in my 4/3 located in suburbia. I feel good knowing we exported all the very nasty jobs and now we can create a secondary market cleaning up the mess. Rally the troops we need to save china, great business model. Do something have assed knowing you will come back later to clean it up at more cost then to do it right the first time. Anyone know how much we are spending at Hanford, WA to clean up the mess the smartest men in the world made. hundreds of billions, anyone know how much we will spend to clean up China, trillions, well trillion is the new billion. I don’t understand how the drywall could be bad from china or how does lead/cadmium get in my kids toys, or how 80% of all recalled items are from china? If ever a picture told a 1000 words.
I think you are blaming the victims and not the cause!
The people cashing in on their 401k’s are NOT shopping at Walmart…
i think people just got thier 401ks robbed by the same people who are causing this polution, dont be afriad to do a little reading before you write word garbage
I will never by any thing fron china again.
What is WRONG with Humanity!?!!
And I don’t blame Americans – their criminal leaders sold out American businesses so it has become near impossible to not buy Chinese Goods anymore for commonly used household needs.
This is not about excess consumerism – this is about the CORRUPTION at the heart of the American and Chinese Governments currently!
We all need to take our countries back from these pitifull elitist swine – now more than ever!
Really? You blame America for China’s inability to regulate its factories, pollution and environmental destruction? Really? Wow, how about the communist leadership of China who don’t care enough about their own people to self-regulate. Everyone loves to blame America – it’s so trendy. Americans, just like every other person in the world, if given the choice between two similar items will 90% of the time pick the cheaper product. Do you really think the past and present Presidents of the US actually planned to send jobs over to China to pollute someplace else? Wow, the line of logic displayed by some folks is simply amazing. Its business folks – if you can produce something cheaper, you’re most likely going to get the job – and China and its government has filled that bill on the backs of its citizenry. Is it terrible that the people of China suffer – of course it is, but it’s not the consumers fault – it’s the Chinese governments fault for not protecting its citizenry by establishing laws and regulations regarding pollution, safe working environments and standardized safety practices. So keep beating up the US for all your woes – I’m sure it’s our fault that the milk in your fridge went sour too. Put your big boy pants on and take responsibility for your own situation.
Well said Hunter. Too many ignorant haters here. I would love to see their spoiled asses live in Iran, China or India and see how much better their way of life is.
have you actually been to Iran Nick?
I have, and it’s full of people intrinsically the same as Americans Canadians etc, I agree with a crazy leader and politics, but the people are great, intelligent well educated enlightened. mostly they just want the wets to leave them alone so they can go about their lives the way they want to. they eat well, they have vibrant communities with fantastic arts and cultures, their life isn’t all that bad actually!
I would say ignorance is a big part of all the problems the world faces now in China and everywhere else!
what really hunter, u don’t think the lack of thought of how and where your belongings are made have no effect on those very things? That when you go to walmart you are not making your contribution the market system as a consumer?
no, ur right, you can choose to buy nothing from China or walmart and that will have make no difference, but you and every consumer had made his and her own decision when you decided you don’t care because it’s not your problem. Plus your votes of lower taxes and more of EVERYTHING only contributed to this system politically.
And the Chinese government. You propose a system then that will solve this problem. You’d have to accumulate more than a fifth of the all humanities happy, while battling off the Americans who are doing everything to keep their own dominance. Ok.. too much I have to say, you should read a good book or something.
But while you’re accusing others of simple thoughts, your own is a mere mirror negative off the opposite view – no better.
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Nothing new, every thing on the pictures you can see in any country
you made the SMARTEST comments. People who live in ignorance like to use the BLAME GAME! it does happen everywhere. Just go to kosovo or the balkans in europe where i had peace missions there, try going to tijuana in mexico and many parts of that country and south america. Go all over africa and go to the entire middle east which is so backward, or if you live in AMERICA, just go to the GHETTOS like oakland ca. or by the border with mexico. The eco nazi’s just want to CONTROL every human and decide who should live or die, it’s called the NEW WORLD ORDER being manufactured by the ECO ENVIRONMENTALIST WACKO NAZIS! who is ruling the U.N.
Dear gung fu,
everything you are posting here does not reduce blame on China. You can not become clearer just pointing on others.
Whenever you purchase a product “Made in China”, you are causing these conditions to go worse!
However if you don’t, you will die with them. Eventually there’s nothing you could do.
You hit the problem on the head, Robert, hostile bicyclist. The guys who own the wealth
are constantly screwing us–everywhere we turn. The enviro-aristocrats are running the conservation show AND the industrial show at the same time. They hold all the cards. Get in touch with your Maker–this is a spiritual warfare problem and it goes beyond “just stealing money”. Take a look if you will at my talk with Alex Jones a couple weeks ago. I laid out in my inarticulate way of their key conspiratorial meeting. You can see us on ‘Alex Jones George Hunt’ on google and many other sites./ His site is ‘infowars.com’. Keep up the journlism, Robert. You’re keener than you know. George Hunt
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It’s population that does it, not a foreign country.
And to stop buying Chinese products will not fix it either.
China has 4 times the population of the USA ( as does India )
China has near same land mass.
Then Australia has near same land mass as both, yet we have only 22 Million people.
Yet we have a high pollution rate !
These are the YANG to the YING that we all need.
Electricity ( Without this, we can not use this Computer to talk about these atrocities )
Motor Car ( As we need to get to work to make Money, to buy the Computer )
Every part of Western and Eastern life HAS to have this working in the background.
You are a thinker, Think! I was fired from a major corporation in 1968 in protest toward their in-your-face pollution policies which somehow gave them permission to pollute in the forest, the pulp mills, the finishing mills, and when people used their sanitary paper products they created more and more litter. The vice-presidents who I was addressing told me “the name of the game in Scott Paper is “profits and dividends, not the ‘girl scouts’”. They did not think their ‘ignore-ance’ would catch up with them, but it did about 2 years later when they were singled out as a major eyesore in the Philadelphia landscape or words to that effect. The company tumbled and they had to sell out to Kimberly-Clark, their arch competitor! Karma happens. I’ve seen it in my 71 years here on earth. See me at ‘alex jones george hunt’ on google or other sites.
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“I can see so far because I stand on the shoulders of giants.”
China has gone through long periods where it’s art, culture and technology were arguably superior to Europe and the West. However, after being beaten up by the British, the French and the Americans it entered the 20th Century well behind the Japanese. Then it was beaten up by the Japanese.
When China discovered that greed and “enlightened” self interest were the keys to productivity, the West was only too happy to give up its technological superiority to hire cheap Chinese labor. China climbed on the West’s shoulders, and never looked back. Now the costs of the great Leap Forward have come home to roost.
China now has the ability to overcome these problems, but the CAPEX and operating costs will be incredible. Is there the necessary political will?
Lord save us from greed. Everytime we buy Chinese crap this sort of inhumanity is advanced. I hope the fools that expect the US to pay the cretans that control the third world for our”polution” and bogus climate change get a load of these pictures. No doubt we are to blame for this as well. Haters of our great country, made less so by recent political events, might consider moving to countries that are more in line with their statist philosephies.
IMHO I think that West countries should buy only goods from “certified” factories. Certified by west countries, that they are ecological. I dont want to support this pain by buying goods from this factories.
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It’s population that does it, not a foreign country.
The former owners lived here for twenty years and had
two daughters with their families living on the property as well
and all three families threw trash around and never went to the dump
or had trash picked up.
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this is so sick.
and i’m sitting in the room next to my chinese roommate who won’t understand one word of what i’m telling her about…
just one small step could mean a LOT…would be so great to just see her saving water, separate waste, stopping the heating from running 24/7…but she won’t listen…in case u don’t understand, chinese rule no. 1: just say “yes yes thanks” and smile.
omg.
well at least thats only my own impression, there may b others..
staggering and unimaginable.
to feed insatiable consumerism.
when it kills us we won’t need to worry about the things we want to buy.
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I feel so sad because we are getting almost every product here and that is a part of polluting the air.
But WalMart is doing great !
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Sad sad sad. There is now nothing we can do. All is in the hands of the Chinese government. But the costs of such horrific pollution will force them eventually to do something.
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Don’t play the blame game on China. Look at the USA in the 1900s. This is only a eonomic. Its only a matter of time before new techology is created to wipe out pollution. Im a man for the future. The year 2110 we will have extraordinary technology beyond our imagination.
A man for the future!
Technology wiping out pollution!
That is beyond every mans imagination!
You are extraordinary for pointing this out!
Future man! I want to help! Can I be the woman?
Why do you assume that Android160 is a man?
OK well, I guess your assuming that I’m a woman! Right? Well wonder no more because you have assumed right! The reason I assumed Android160 is a man! Well, because he/she said “I’m a man for the future.” So you see?
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FUCK humanity. Humanity simply doesn’t care about anything. Just imagine the world before this plaque appeared on the back of it. This used to be paradise. In 30-40 years, this planet will be hell. But there is a good news! A lot of people will have 1000 billion dollars! I hope that people who think about money as the most valuable thing on earth, won’t die until they have to explain their grandchildren why they cannot go outside to play, why they can only see everything destroyed.
Agreed. The human race has screwed up earth so badly, and it needs to become extinct. Then the earth can recover itself naturally – and it will in time, without humans.
how do you know humanity is “destroying” the earth?
maybe self-aware beings (i.e. us humans) were put on this earth to ensure that there was enough CO2, sulfur, and nitrogen compounds in the atmosphere and water for the next evolutionary leap.
give the earth some credit, it’s been around longer than us. maybe it knows what it’s doing.
Wherever there is life, there has always been suffering and there always will be. Often it is painful to see humanity fail in their efforts to reduce the suffering of many on behalf of the short term intrests or profit of just a few. Yet as we are forced to move away from the carbon-based industries I feel there is improvement towards a sustainable economy, based on a common and global bio-sphere awareness. It all depends on how we manage to educate the next generation. There is still a chance we may get there. Here’s some good news to calm you down:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/business/energy-environment/31renew.html
Humanity when left to our own device, will always choose what’s best for #1. To a degree- YES! You should. We need that degree of selfishness because it’s what gives each one of us the value of life. We all have that personal space in this world and we can make-it whatever we want to make-it.
But when the degree has done a 360, meaning choices we are making for our self and not giving any extra thought to the effects it will have on the rest of the world. Is now the reason that choices for self has almost destroyed humanity.
That surrounding environment that we all just assumed would take care of it’s self every time we walked out the door is now the cancers that are killing us. Collectively humanity is to blame and will always be at fault as long as we chose to do nothing but cry and keep blaming each other. There is not one country to take all the blame and there is not just one human being to blame for all our environmental issues.
We are all guilty and know one is better than anyone else. We all have products that fill our homes and all of these products have had and do have the countries that they were made in stamp on them. Had we all known the effect that factories with pollution this horrible was going to happen before we ever built them. I think it’s fair to say that collectively humanity would have never built them.
If we want to help clean up the messes that we have all created so that our environment is able to heal and renew it’s self. Then encourage everyone around you and all the other
countries so that collectively humanity can breath fresh air that is essential to living a
healthy life. If you personal choose to keep attacking and blaming then you have selfishly prolonged suffering that is shorting our lives. You have been slowing down the progress that all humanity wants and needs.
How long we live and our desire for longevity is simply our existence. Human nature in order to survive, depends on the choices we all make unselfishly working together. Which is the reason we should at least try.
NEWSFLASH!THIS JUST IN!
“China is trying” and are becoming the world’s largest maker of wind turbines, and
they plan to expand even further this year. In the last two years, China has emerge as the
world’s largest manufacturer of solar panels. And the country is pushing hard to build efficient types of coal power plants. Nobody has ever seen such fast development in a wind market.
This is great!
correction: we are all guilty and no one is better than anyone else!
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China needs to clean up the most polluted areas in the country. Why would you manufacture products and destroy your own country and people at the same time? This is a prime example of what we are doing on a global scale does not work.
Amazing and shocking Photos! Great work on showing people what is going on, in a prety much raw way, I would say!
i cant belive what i just saw and i was like wow taht pollution can do that the US and china sre to blame for this
im glad thoses people are dieing becauce like chines or whatever people are ugly and stupid
hilarious
not nearly as ugly and stupid as you
Pollution in China is the result of a country that has valued economic development over human rights with an ends justifies the means approach to hopefully one day achieving a higher standard of living.
Achievements have been made with development and since China views economic goals as more important than environmental and furthermore human health/rights protection its seems that nothing will change at the pace western nations want.
Does this mean that the responsibility is in the hands of purchasing nations as they are what is indirectly calling for this pollution? Probably, but western nations also hit a huge wall when they start to value environmental issues over economics unless a government steps in.
Everyone in this entire world is responsible for what is going on in China. We, the customers around the world are to blame for purchasing items made in a Country where there are no rules or regulations against the standard of living going on in China. The United States and every other country that alLows China to export their products into their country until they develop and enforce rules and regulations equal to or better than what the importing country has. It is evident that the Chinese Government doesn’t care about the people living in China but are only interested in manufacturing things to sell in other countries. Yes, I feel sorry for the Chinese people but they need to work to make changes in their government leaders concerned about their standard of living.
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I have not, and I never will purchase ANYTHING at WalMart !!!
This is also true for several of my friends here in America !!!
The boatloads of crap can stay in China as far as I’m concerned !!!
Wow, what a free spirit! you probably sleep really well at night.
oh, by the way, Walmart is not the only place that sells products from China.
So I’m assuming you also don’t shop at Target, Sears, any big department store for that matter, don’t drive a car, don’t have a cell phone, and you don’t use a computer (you used telepathy to leave that comment, right?).
give us a break, alright?
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Traditionally a very poor region of China until the discovery of vast coal deposits.
Have a look at a wedding involving one of the coal boss’ family.
A Ferrari here can only be the escort car!
Wedding limo: Rolls-Royce Phantom
The Groom’s house
Part of the dowry (cheque, gold bars and gold rice bowl set)
The Lambo (second one) is also part of the dowry!
Groom with the best men “team”
Picking up the bride
Bride’s home
The lucky bride
Part of the escort team
A \3,000 manicure, forget the diamond ring.
Giving the “Open the Door” Red Packets
Receiving the red packets on the other side
Bride’s family
The wedding hall
This is one fleet for a wedding on June 20, 2009 in Datong, a major city in Shanxi.
Of course, involving another coal magnate.
F360
40 Porsche Cayennes, Range Rovers, BMW X5 and Audi Q7 are not counted as the wedding fleet, only escorts.
Classic Ferrari 575M
The escort team’s job is to go ahead of the wedding fleet to “clear the road”!
The camera team
6 Jeeps as camera team
4 Ferrari leads
4 Rolls Royce main fleet
6 Mercedes
6 Bentleys
20 Audi A8s
Hummer at the back
Cayennes for “odd jobs”!!!!!!! !
those pictures are gut wrenching, why do not the chinese people rebel against this hideous misuse of nature, the environment and the people being slowly poisoned by the pollutants, are they so greedy they cannot see the havoc that crap is doing to the land, the waterways and their own people? is money that important to risk the lives of the people in China?Why are not these questions answered by thinking chinese, cannot someone rise up and stop this from happening?
At what cost China? You were a gorgeous country.
Yes, but they have no Wal-Marts and hated The Bushitler. You have to give them that.
Dear Sirs and Madams,
Reading many of these posts has been a both heartening and dismaying experience. Heartening because everyone is rightly appalled by the conditions in China, and most everyone has seen the connection between the cheap products we enjoy in the West and those same horrible conditions. It is appalling because so many seem to see the Chinese state as some weak third world government that is incapable of taking responsibility for its own mess. That is the subtext of the post in which someone asserts that the West should give away its expensive and hard earned environmentally friendly technology to China. Ditto if you believe that anyone other than the Chinese should pay for the cleanup.
Here are some relevant numbers:
1) In 2009 the US had a $226.8 Billion trade deficit with China: US exported only $69.6 billion to China, China exported $296.4 Billion to US.
2) At the end of 2009 China had $2.4 Trillion in foreign currency reserves. Of that amount $895 Billion was US Treasuries.
From these numbers we see that China has plenty money to clean up its environment, but has chosen not to. The West has zero responsibility for that decision. China is a big boy country now – has been for years. It sits at the grown up table at all the important world events. So do not make the mistake of treating them like a Sub-Sahara African basket case. It smacks of progressive condescending racism, “They aren’t white so they must be oppressed and helpless.”
Furthermore, one reason for the incredible trade deficit is that companies manufacturing in China do not have to price into their cheap products the costs of environmental protection and cleanup. If manufacturers in China has to price into their products costs of environmental taxes and regulations their product would go from being impossible to compete against to only highly improbable to compete with. In addition to making for a cleaner environment and a better life for its people, more realistic pricing along with purchases of Western environmental machinery would help rebalance China’s unsustainable trade differentials with the rest of the World. China seemingly has not yet figured out that a sustainable trade balance is in its long term interests; it will make more money and the money it makes will be worth more.
A reading test. Did you catch my apparent contradiction? In the first paragraph I wrote that only the Chinese should have to pay for the cleanup, but in the fourth paragraph I wrote that China should price the environmental costs into the products they sell us. Of course you let that slide because you saw the obvious distinction. On the one hand China would sell us incredibly cheap baubles, and after we paid for them and used them China comes back and asks for more money. That would be dishonest, actionable, and even criminal salesmanship. On the other hand China tells us up front the cost of their products. That would be honest, the environment would be cleaner, and the World’s economy would be healthier.
Cheers,
Deaderjack.
Every industrial revolution creates these horrific situations. England, America, Japan, and Europe all went through it. The difference here is the vast scale of China’s population and its authoritarian government. Change for the better is possible in a democracy. Not so much in a tyranny.
Although I agree partly with the above, we must not forget that roughly 50% of China’s production is for export, made by foreign companies who take most of their (CHEAP) material from these chemical companies. I emphasize CHEAP, because it is the low price these chemical companies sell their products to those factories down the production line that then are able to sell their products CHEAP! So it is the consumers inside and foremost outside China that benefit from cheap products….everything is interconnected, we can’t just blame the Chinese for polluting their environment and the Earth, unless we as consumers are willing to pay MORE for Chinese made products. Its easy to just blame the chinese, and forgetting that in fact they produce cheaply for us and by our companies to sell outside of China. Many foreign companies squeeze the chinese companies to sell their products as cheap as possible, and make huge profits in the West! Because the prices paid by these foreign companies are so bloody low, the chinese companies have to compromise on safety, etc…….
We as consumers are partly to blame, cause we are not willing to pay more, unless we can do that, together with enforcement on the foreign AND local companies to clean up their mess, will we have a cleaner environment……..
There is a reason why these companies produce in this way, because most of the times they are just underpaid by their customers!
Hong Sien
Why is it people in China will not hold their government accountable for allowing this to happen when they make deals with Multinational Corporations.Both are responsible.We need a global minimum wage and global environmental laws.Guess what,who has the money,Rich people everywhere will do this if they can.It’s foreign and domestic Greed causing these problems.However I am not Chinese I can’t help you change your government.I can only change my government.1 I will boycott your goods,2 pressure my politicians for wealth distribution and enforce laws for child and slave labor which they are supposed to ban products made which engage in either.All I can say is change doesn’t have to be violent we can all have a peaceful movement and get the same results.But you still have to speak up.
Because the government will kill anyone who speaks up
Elenore, more socialism isn’t going to solve the problem. You are looking at what “wealth redristribution” does to a country. It makes it a evil parasite. It sucks the blood out of its own people and the stupid American and Europeeon consumers willing to buy their plastic junk; junk, by the way, largely stolen from the people of China and using ideas often stolen from European/American/Japanese/Korean intellect. Nothing new comes out of China anymore. Only poverty, theft and murder. The Chinese need to rise up and kill their leaders. If they don’t, the Communists will consume all the world and inevitably themselves. We are too weak to defend the world anymore from the communist threat.
Elenore, two words for your ignorant brain “tiananmen square” – please look it up.
That is one of the most ignorant things I have ever heard. Paying more for a china made product will only further pad the pockets of the greedy companies that abandon the likes of the USA that have stringent requirements. Its entirely up to the government of china to regulate controls to protect its people and its enviroment.
Hong Sien.
I disagree. The government in china should be held solely responsible for the regulations imposed upon industries that operate inside it’s borders. It does not matter who owns them, who they sell to, or who buys the end product.
explain to me where does democracy fit in all of this. a democratic system, in china’s situation is if anything, more likely to be polluting the environment, with lobbyists and all. democracy, if introduced to China now, is more likely to be controlled by the rich (even more so than now) than by the poor.
Carl, communism doesn’t eradicate wealthy people or classes. It only creates two seperate classes: A ruling class and a slave class. There is no rule of law in communism. Notice the communists here in America who celebrate the illegal breaking of laws. It is the same everywhere else communists exist, and especially in the countries they rule over. Corrupt men rule in communist societies, and these corrupt men do whatever they please. They kill and torture people. You have no protections. You have no rights. You are a piece of meat to serve the state! And you, a fool, call this better than freedom!? Your communism created these “rich” overlords in China!
If you have a class system then it’s not true Communism. Contemporary China is an example of State Captalism. You really should get a bit clearer on these things before you speak so forcefully.
True Communism? Are we now talking fantasyland here? This is communism as it EXISTS. Don’t like it, tough. It is as good as it gets, Robert. You need to open your eyes.
Excellent reply my friend
Carl, can you please take a look around, say, the United States. Were you alive in the 70s. If you were you would realize we are 100x cleaner today than then. Market forces give people the choice to boycott polluters or favor those that are cleaner. Your bent on hating US is influencing your thoughts. Although I agree with the disdain of lobbyists – if we actualy followed the Constitution, their influence would be muted.
JEEZUS CHRIST WHERE ARE YOU?
go search him!! u won’t find him!! better do something on your own than believin’ somebody else is going to fix it!!!
I agree with Johnny Knuckles. Moreover, since we have so much trade with China and we have a large trade deficit with them, It’s reasonable to mandate China import and implement our technology and legislation to clean up this mess. As China moves forward in areas of manufacturing, education and technology, the country will either pollute itself to death, literally and economically, or they will catch up with modern world methods of cleaner manufacturing. It’s logical to anticipate the latter since China is quickly advancing in education.
advancing to where in education?! I have taught here for 7 years and nothing has advanced except Beijing University and Renmin University. every other University is stagnating.
As Johnny Knuckles said: every industrial revolution creates this. All current rich countries have gone through it. Now they are rich, have education, good quality of life and think that they have authority to tell to poorer countries what they have to do. China is just trying to get richer, as any country in the world tries to. Unfortunatelly, this is the process they have to go through. It is impossible to reach Japan, Europe richness and education level without doing this. Is it possible? Give a solution!
I also believe that this is really bad for the planet, for the people, and for the future of our nature.. on the other hand, this is the system our planet works.. and nobody proposed something better (that is applicable at the same time). China is no guilty, as isn’t any poor country in the world. The economical system is guilty.. and we do not have any better solution (except utopies).
It’s possible if you do it slowly. We did not have this level of devestation, destruction and complete lack of regard for the long term life of the country and people. CHina has too many people and is advancing too rapidly with a government unwilling to do anything to limit the growth and destruction for fear of pissing off it’s population with under 8% growth numbers.
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The photos represent truth that we don’t see in the media. I can’t deny the deep sadness that fills me to gaze at photos of these strangers and their families, hopeless because they do not have the resources to oppose big businesses, nor even to move away. These people have first hand knowledge about what the pollution is causing in terms of health effects. Education is not the solution at this point.
When the industrial revoloution began for the U.S. and Europe, we were still tinkering with combution and synthesis of hydrocarbons. Our pollutants of concerns were harmful and were poorly managed. Clean up costs are very high; much higher than preventing similar waste sites from re-occuring. But, we are in process. Our regulations, when followed, prevent similar waste sites from multiplying. Though we still have our own issues about big business fighting against increased regulations at the expense of our people and the environment…
Unfortunately for China, the industrial revolution has evolved beyond coal and oil combustion. Chemicals used, produced, and discharged into the environment are more toxic in smaller concentrations. Terratogenic and mutagenic effects of exposure will continue through generations! Clean up is not even a topic of discussion yet, since pollution control technologies to minimize emissions and discharges are not mandated.
International relationships are complicated, no doubt, but we know that leveraging our buying power works. I agree with David Herndon that the US should mandate trade agreements based on how sustainable/clean industrial products are produced. I believe the EU has manufacturer specifications to allow trade of products. In the short term, I buy from EU countries and the USA, as best I can, and I review manufacturers environmental policy, too.
In the long term, we must take responsibility for global health. The planet is a single system where impacts to one place eventually have impacts to others.
My father comes back from the hardware store with a bunch of cheap tools exclaiming, ‘How do the make it and ship it from China for that price?’ The answer is in these pictures. In physics as in nature there are no shortcuts, a price has to be paid somewhere. Exploitative labor is one way and cheap waste disposal is another way for companies all over the world to provide us with the crappy quality tools and gizmos we are so used to buying and throwing away. One way to vote with your feet against this sort of pollution would be to buy quality products that last from responsible companies, but this costs more cash. In the end all problems in the word come down to our ability to control our desires.
Exactly. I don’t understand how people don’t put two and two together… Of course the media doesn’t connect any dots and doesn’t want people realizing just how damaging these things are… It’s sad.
The real problem is. Because it is so cheap, people buy it and local businesses who are forced to pay higher wages and comply with certain laws go out of business or move it all off shore to china. I think the buck stops with the chinese government. If they impose regulations things would get better.
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get your spelling right.anil…
this is so freaking terrible
So this is what it takes for us to get cheaper goods at Walmart? So how does this work in terms of me being able to sleep tonight. Do I just pretend this was a Photoshop contest or what?
Amen, brother.
We in the west are given so much unprecedented freedom and supposed control of our lives, that we forget that in a lot of cases we singularly are powerless to fix this. Who can we turn to for justice?
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The belief that a present day country has to go through an “industrial Revolution” akin to the one from the late 19th century with it’s pollution and labor problems is silly. Besides, we are at the verge of an environmental revolution wherein well informed and progressive businesses realize that the ultimate profits and success actually come more from avoiding pollution than creating it. Squandering resources, making people sick and facing potential fines and public boycotts of products never did any country or business any good.
It’s just idiotic excuses. With our current technology it’s possible to achieve modernization without this damage, just would take a little longer and cost a little more. I sometimes wonder if it’s not all just one big population control technique… kill off half the population so the rest can live better later…
That’s probably it, Uber. To pretend that China “has to go” through this in order to industralize is nonsense. Is China blind to the history of other countries? Is it lacking the knowledge and money to do something? No. It knows perfectly well what it is doing… the problem is that they don’t care. What is a human being in the sight of the Chinese government? Less than a slave! A object to control and to help extend control to others.
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save this world as soon as possible…
Looks like a hell, where’s the government????
that IS the government! lol.. policy in action, meet those GDP targets, everyone – OR ELSE..
i love america – even if we’re broke – nothing like fresh air and reasonably clean water..
stay on your side of the ocean, please.
explain to me where does democracy fit in all of this. a democratic system, in china’s situation is if anything, more likely to be polluting the environment, with lobbyists and all. democracy, if introduced to China now, is more likely to be controlled by the rich (even more so than now) than by the poor.
Democracy does not increase pollution – it is fatuous and idiotic to spew such drivel. Every nation in the history of the world that adopted democracy was improved by it. Too bad so many young idiots have been propagandized to be against democracy.
THEY ARE KILLING OUR PLANET
thanks for the great post
Companies offshored jobs to take advantage of desperate labor and non-existent environmental law. The rich got the profits. The rest of us got pink slips, pay cuts, and some cheap trinkets for a while. And then we just bailed out the rich who did it to us. “Thank you! May I have some more?”
No, companies offshored jobs because of ever-increasing taxes and regulations, to which you leftwing idiots want to add more and more and more. Obamacare will just accelerate this process, as you leftwing idiots cheer it on.
haha yeah, it wasn’t that they could make the shoe for a penny instead of a dollar, that wasn’t at all what attracted companies…. Instead of talk about the real reasons they went offshore (greed) lets just argue idiotic leftwing/rightwing points of view! that’ll solve everything!
I like you Uber. I agree with everything you’ve said on here.
I am happy China is benefiting from all the consuming the US and other country’s are doing. I am sad that it is creating such greed and pollution and suffering by innocents. Where is Erin Brockovich when we need her or is there a Chinese equivalent? With the Government that exists there that may not be possible. Can you sue the companies for polluting there?
No, the company have bought up the government. As is it happening just about everywhere, whereas in China the government is bought, in the U.S., they simply go work in the government, making change even less possible.
The Chinese Erin Brockovich is probably doing some manual labour in a work camp somewhere…
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This is just very very sad. Social reform is hard to come by these days.
Horrible situations for these poor people! I wish that organizations/nations would discredit those industrial plants so as to force them into corporate social responsibility. Shame on them. Increase prices for God’s sake if that’s what is needed!
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These pictures can not be enough to describe such a nightmare…
And I don’t think that we the people intend to change anything:
It would have been already changed if we really wish to prevent the disaster.
I feel so powerless… Saying that it is not my country or my government which allows that, I don’t feel so guilty.
That’s the caracteristics of a western wealthy democracy, I suppose.
I believe in the system which is able to lead mankind and the planet to a state of complete justice and good health.
According to what I see, it seems that all have failed.
Selfishness and ignorance were enough to make real suffering come true.
It is sad to see this, but we did not see the tens of millions of those there who died of starvation absent industrialization. The smokestacks look like those of Pittsburgh and Sudbury in the earlier twentieth century. The waters are like the Thames, Lake Erie and the Cuyahoga River that prompted changes when wealth created the means to clean them up. This is an unfortunate stage of development, but I will leave it to the reader to assess whether Africa’s current undeveloped, subsistence lifestyle is preferable. Until the industrial revolution, life expectancy on earth was ~35 years for 10,000 years. And the very things Charles Dickens saw as aesthetically displeasing left a legacy where great grandparents now are common. Looking at open heart surgery without the benefit of understanding why someone is undergoing the operation is ignorance.
‘Historian’ writes:
“It is sad to see this, but we did not see the tens of millions of those there who died of starvation absent industrialization. ”
News for you ‘Historian’, tens of millions of Chinese died/were murdered by the Chinese Communist Party, NOT because of some low level or lack of industrialization. This happened during the Land Reform, the ‘Great Leap Forward’ which was followed by the Three Lean Years, and The Cultural Revolution. None of this had anything to do with “dying of starvation absent [sic] industrialization”
The Chinese died because of the murderous nature of the CCP (totalitarian and paranoid) and its inept policy making process.
And to be certain, these three periods were just the worst ones. There’s been many smaller famines which were localized and of course there was and still is the forever ongoing campaigns to persecute political rivals, ethnic groups, religious groups, and anybody else who gets in the way.
The biggest threat to humanity is undoubtedly the CCP. No other political organization has killed more than they have.
The CCP have destroyed China’s environment and are well on their way to destroying their neighbours’.
Your chosen name ‘Historian’ is clearly oxymoronic.
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I can not beleve some one would not bleve that this is a real problem. and the US has a part in it we do as a world comunity need to help clean up the mess.
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Facts: 1: The chinese government does not care about pollution problems, just as the US government did not care during the US industrial revolution.
2: US polices were changed only after public outcry to the government to FORCE corporate scum to clean up there act.
3: US consumers do not benefit from cheaply made chinese goods. the only ones that benefit from cheaply made goods in the US, the companies like Mattel, who make Babies in china for 10 cents, then sell them here for $10-$40 each.
4: Unless the chinese people stand up for themselves, there corporations will chat them, as they have shafted the US
5: Corporations NEVER care about the people they hurt. they only care about themselves & there profits. Only by threat of prison time for the owners will anything ever change in china. & only there government can do that.
Unfortunately,China as well as the rest of the world takes care of money, power, appearance; approximately first, second and third…
About milk’s melanin, why have the responsibles been comdemned? Because people from important cities, perhaps rich people’s relatives too could directly be potential victims.
Unfortunately, the victims of pollution on these photos can not be taken into the same consideration: the rich live somewhere else. The nation is not concerned about have nots’ living conditions.
What is needed is… finding mankind somewhere on the earth.
Those who destroy people’s life re criminals.
Those who tolerate it by closing their eyes are cowards.
We have means, we have technologies which could radically change the things, but don’tdo anything. Is economy a reason to allow that?
Can democracy give us the opportunity to act?
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Personally those are the second most shocking pictures I have seen from China. The worst was a video in which they showed how they treat the animals in the fur industry. Maybe that is the strength of video and seeing another being suffer.
I just hope China finally remembers that traditionally they have been a culture with a long term orientation and destroying you surroundings does not go well with this…
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again. The single biggest threat to humanity that we will have to face as humans in the 21st century will be that of the CORPORATION. If we can’t bring this beast under control it will be the death of us all.
The Chinese problem is a corporate problem, and unfortunately for them their government is the corporation. So their is little they can do, other than to shame the government internationally by making this known. Boycotts are the only language that they will understand.
Just don’t expect the international community to be to receptive to this idea or at least by the governments anyways. The citizens are a different story but most will never hear about this because it will interfere with the “CORPORATIZING” of the world that is taking place right now by the way of the non-existint Global Warming Crisis.
The current bogyman is CO2 and they don’t want your attention diverted to real man made pollution as it might serve to distract you.
By the way China is exempt of all restrictions in any of the current Cap and Trade, Carbon Taxation scams being presented to solve this non-existing dilemma. Meaning that they are free to keep on producing the smog that rides the trade winds across the Pacific that we get to breath in California.
I have no sense of shame as a chinese, but I’m full of shame at chinese gov.
Hey, I recognized about half of those factories! They are the ones moved from America to China so that (1) America could be “greener”, and (2) cheap Chinese labor could be used to keep prices low at Wal*Mart. I’m sure the others are British, German, and French factories. Thank you China for buying into the plan to keep other countries clean, while you sink ever deeper into their waste and sewage. On the other hand, China is happy to smear itself with the sewage of the West, just to make a fast buck. Next move, China eventually starts enforcing standards, and moves all of its factories to….Burma and India ? Woo Hoo !
The people claiming that this is “normal” as part of an industrial revolution are flat wrong – the scale of this far exceeds that of the past. Has the US and Europe done their fair share of damage? Sure. However, this new level of complete disregard by a nation is unprecedented.
I am a writer based in Asia and can say first-hand that until you go experience the apocalyptic air in places like Tianjin for yourself, you aren’t seeing the big picture.
The Chinese people are certainly not to blame. As some have already mentioned, the culprit is 100% corporate greed, both in the West and China. http://www.thecorporation.com/
That is a pretty decent documentary. I saw it a while ago but watched it again yesterday for shits and giggles. It touches on some of the pertinent issues but it’s real strength is in the way it explains the history of the CORPORATION. Little is said though about any solutions or alternatives. I felt it wasn’t very successful at expressing the true size of the threat though.
To do that you end up treading deep in to the rabbit hole where conspiracy theory’s are born. But be that as it is, you must tread there to see the things that aren’t shown. Like these photos for instance. I first saw these five or six months ago and thought how much these photos could help bring an end to the pollution in China if they where picked up by the media here in the US or in the UK.
Then I had to laugh at that notion because I knew it was an absurdity. I knew it wouldn’t happen. After all they are CORPORATIONS them selfs and closely linked to the polluters in China.
While the ever so omnipresent specter of “climate change” is shoved down our throats on a daily basis the truly appalling environmental destruction goes on unabated. Some times I feel like the person in the audience watching a group of people who have been hypnotized and are totally unaware of the fact that they are all clucking like chickens.
People have been hypnotized into believing that CO2 ( the gas that makes the world green) is giving the earth a fever and it’s our fault and that taxing us will some how fix it. Maybe if we can just pressure real polluters into not polluting we can forgo the tax but then again, it never was about pollution.
I’ll take your word for the air pollution in Tianjin. It blows across the ocean and pollutes our air in California. I know how bad it was here back in the 80′s before our environmental laws really came into effect. Bad as it was, it wasn’t any where near what I see in these photos.
Now a days every thing comes from China it seems. So it makes sense that we import our smog from China as well. (that’s sarcasm for those who don’t recognize it)
So what I’m saying in not so many words is I agree.
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I don’t care about Сhinese people, but they are killing our planet!
Our planet is already near to death…
And the Westerners are killing the planet for a few centuries before Chinese people…
And the rules of globalization and corporation are from the Western world.
Don’t feel guilty at all?
Wake up and smell the roses people – As long as there is a major profit – NO ONE IN BUsiness gives a damn. The BUYERS of the goods have to take a major role in saying CLEAN UP YOUR ACT.
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wow. that is downright rediculous. We have all this money here and we can’t help out a country who’s giving us supplies and resources as well as goods?! Don’t we owe money to the anyhow?
anyway,we all should be working together to help our world from distruction like pollution. this problem can’t be sovled if we all don’t make any solution out of it. And then stop blaming eachother’s country, alright everyone….
When you buy those cheap products from China, now you know why they’re so cheap.
Money is the root of all evil. Everything shown here comes down to money.
Money it’s self is quite innocuous. It is the LOVE of money that is the root of all evil. I don’t want to sound like I’m splitting hairs here but there is a fundamental difference. That said I see your point and do agree.
Indeed, the love of money is the recurrent problem, more than the existence of money.
Nonetheless, money has been created in order exchange our goods: I give you mine, you give me yours.
In which extent such a exchange becomes unfair?
Some people just use money to buy goods. Living conditions are quite nice. I do not see any problem.
Some other sacrify their health to buy what they need. They live in appaling conditions. Do you see the problem?
Is there somebody who really merit one’s good living conditions? Bad living conditions?
Besides, I notice that trade is managed in a very good way. Share something is probably not human.
We cannot prevent this events, but surely we can control all of this, what I see in this is, Gluttony and greed of people involved in this type of catastrophe. The damage has been done, and I’m sorry these poor strangers suffered. we are all at war with nature, by purchasing products made by or in part from these industries we are giving our share in funding this war. We all know if nature strikes back at us, It will be worst for us.
We are all on the same boat, we live in One planet. we do not own it, we are only borrowing it. Our future generations do
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“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you will always long to return”
Leonardo da vicci
“This was my palace; in days past many a one plucked here the purple flower of magic and fruit of tree of life….. and even as he spoke, a light began to glow and to pervade the cave, and to obliterate the stone walls and the antique hieroglyphics engrave there on, and to melt the earthen floor into itself like a fiery sun suddenly uprising within the world, and there was everywhere a wandering ecstasy of sound, light and sound were one; light had the voice……… I am Angus, men call me young. I am the sunlight in the heart, the moonlight in the wind; I am the light at the end of every dream….I will make you immortal; for my palace opens into the garden of the sun.”
George Russell 1897
“A dream of Angus Oge”
“To one who lay on the mound which is called the BrÚ on the boyne a form like that the bards speak of Angus from the land of immortal youth………Oh, see our sun is dawning, with ever youthful and triumphant voice. Your sun is but a smoky shadow, ours the ruddy and eternal glow…..My birds from purple fiery plumage shed the light of lights”
George Russell 1918
“The candle of vision”
“Tell me have you ever seen a light from the sun falling on you in your slumber? No, but look know. Look upward”
As she spoke the cavern with its dusky roof seemed to melt away, and beyond the heavens, the heavens of heavens lay dark in pure tranquility, in a quiet which was the very hush of being. “ See now” cried Diotima, the ancient beauty so from age the eternal beauty bows itself down amid sorrows, that the children of men may not forget it, and their anguish may be transformed, smitten through by its fire”
George Russell
“The childhood of Apollo”
I am wind on sea
I am ocean wave
I am a beam of sun
Who is he who announces the ages of the moon?
Who teaches the place where falls the sunset?
Who calleth cattle from the house of Tethys?
On whom do the cattle of Tethys smile?
Enchantments of wind?
The mystery of Amergin
Said to be first poem made in Ireland
Date unknown, one of many translations
Now before my eyes, Paul Heyl, busy but calm and warmly welcoming, master scientist of the National Bureau of Standards, was performing that very experiment weak thout you are, oh Gravity, in drawing together two everyday masses. I saw with my own eyes this week pull magnified up by swing like resonance to an effect which heyl was then and there measuring to a precision up to that time unprecedented and destined to stand for many years.
Smiling at my fascination with your force, Gravity, Heyl took me to another room and showed me the machine. He had built of gears and pulleys. There a string grasped a pen. The pen traced out on moving paper an hour by hour prediction of the height of the tide. That machine, I wish I had now as O took down my window on the ten foot tide of the Atlantic, raised by force you carry, oh Gravity, from sun and moon.
J. A. wheeler
The Universe would collapse. The cosmos also owed its being to its axis, Yagdrasil, that magnificent and eternal green ash tree. At the foot of this tree emerged three springs, from one flowed all the rivers of the world. Another was where Odin drew all wisdom, and the third was the symbol of fate, several symbolic animals perched in its branches, while snakes forever would around its roots. The God would assemble under its shade; to get there, they crossed a vibrant, shining rainbow, the Milky Way of the shalds bards would sing.
I know where grows an ash, it is called yagdrasil, a tall tree, speckled with white drops; from there comes the dew which falls in the valley; it flourishes forever above the well of urd.
Viking (religion)
Who are you NB? What are you trying to tell us?
However, your quotes are a pleasant change for readers. Thanks.
is there any possible way to help change this?!
?
Working on the Lugano Report, maybe.
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Really amazing !
Very beautiful photos – though the topic is rather distressing. In a world that is run by money, and not the citizens, it is of paramount importance to make legislation in the fields of production and distribution – the citizens´or the (foreign) companies´ freedom to buy cheap stuff simply is NOT able to do it in a proper, viable way, for the human race to survive itself. How stupid and badly organized we are, when up against huge companies – and our own, consumer-stupidity! I wish you all the best – and keep on your struggles for a better world, in all ways possible!
I am really depressed to see these pictures. China has become the Production house of the world. All the crap of the world are manufactured there.
THE MEDIA CAN ALWAYS WRITE “THE CHINESE ECONOMY IS GROWING AT 10%”
I am sure we can only have summits in Denmark and can not make this world a clean and green place.
they need some serious help
We can only pray to the lord to intervene and save this earth from the cruelties of Human being.
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Makes you scared doesn’t it?
I’m certainly not eating anything MADE IN CHINA anymore…
The pollution is APALLING>>>>
Try to avoid pollutions.
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Great article Thank
I don’t think I read any responses from someone in China yet? What do they think of their new-found wealth which comes with all of this pollution?
Hmmm perhaps you didn’t see what happened to the peaceful protesters in Tianmen square? Let me refresh your memory – a tank runs over a few of them. Or you didn’t read the news recently where it said that the Chinese government is censoring the internet. (Facebook and so on) The reason they are able to keep these conditions going there is because there is an “overlord” system that has taken control of its people through fear, death and torture. The ones who now have money and who have escaped this hell by whatever means are not about to blow it all away by opening their mouths with an opinion which would only have them thrown into prison, tortured, organs removed for the black market and left to die. Especially since the ones who now have wealth are able to go to sleep easy at night knowing full well that they are stepping on the backs of all these people to be where they are. They for sure will never make a comment. Not a peep.
I think you are giving “THEM” too much credit. Most of these pictures are people in distress by circumstance not domination. They neither possess the means nor will to change their surrounding.
Them is a very paranoid good old boy system. Mostly run by local thugs. They can’t afford dissent or the whole system falls apart.
The “Government” is even more inept than this one. So they have to control media very well – and they do!
As long as you aren’t stirring up crap, you can live your life pretty peacefully and you can actually achieve a prettygood lifestyle.
But it ain’t gonna be like here.
This is yet another example of why everyone needs to transition towards a completely localized existance. Just because Amerika cleaned up a lot of it’s toxicity doesn’t mean it wasn’t simply moved to where it could not so easily be seen. Governments aren’t going to do it. Corporations aren’t going to do it. It must be a grass roots movement! We have no choice.
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I think what we need is a law to prevent stores from being able to sell useless crap. Any stores and manufacturers selling products that can not do what they are intended to (most as seen on TV) or do not last for a reasonable amout of time (dollar store batteries for example) should be fined. Although this would not solve the problem it would at least make stores think a little bit before they sell stuff that will only end up in a landfill. When the stores and manufacturers are following this law then it could be expanded to include products produced in an un-clean way.
If there weren’t Americans on this planet, this world would be far better than it is now.
China? Just another victim of evil Americans.
You’re an ignorant, biased prick.
I’m not american btw.
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I’ve heard about this . And many factories have this situation : They will not profit when government ask them to be environmentally friendly.
economy or environment , it’s a single choice for these factories. I think many of them tend to economy
Shocking and horrible, I knew pollution was bad, but I didn’t know it’s a disaster of this extend.
I absolutely love my Dolphin! I’ve it about four years now and only wanted 1 repair as a result of someone stepped on the plastic part that connects the ability cable to the power supply. I live in Mass so we use it for less than four months a year. I have many bushes that overlook the pool so we always have pine needles and leaves within the pool. The Dolphin does an excellent job cleaning the pool. I run twice before emptying the filter bag. Cleansing the bag is a pain, but loads less of a ache than hauling out the guide pool vacuum.
We are selfish human being. We are forgetting that this earth is to live and we should die leaving the planet in a better condition, we are destroying the future.
Wow! We should die leaving the planet in a better condition?
Sonia’s right! Lets just stop living… and… you know.. give up ?
Give up the most natural instinct of surviving.
Excellent input.
(SARCASM)
When every one of us is gone, it will take a very short time for Earth to wipe out all the corruption we have done. Quit worrying about the Earth it will be fine without us.
Some of these pictures are quite distressing so if you are a little delicate then beware. A terrible history of environmental havoc, China must make an effort to put its house in order before it becomes a crisis. A terribly sad story of things that could have been avoided, had industrialists been willing to spend a little more money. You could put a number of these pictures in to black and white and they could pass as scenes of poverty and misfortune from the Victorian era.
truth: we just want the truth.
china: after 4000 years: workers making 25 cents an hour
china: sick man of asia. century of shame
china: 80% are peasants after 2000 years. how come.
china: 50000 block-writing. what civilized nations uses such primative, barbric system of writing. all you need is:
1010101
0123456789
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
Sheer Ignorance
Chinese goverment are trying to contral. Things are changing better.
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Wow!
Some of these are horrible
– I honestly had no idea of how bad it is in some places over there.
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